Wu Yingying turned his head to Chase again: "At the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, the Gaochang Uighurs were originally a little rebellious, and the Qarlu Department is the old enemy of our Anxi army. Don't go it alone. His words were not for nothing, when Anxi Du Hu Gao Xianzhi led a large army to attack Talas, he was defeated by the Arab and Western Regions coalition forces. Although the Qarluq tribe is a big reason for the rebellion, the Anxi army's rash lone advance itself is putting itself in danger.

As long as he stabilized his position, Wu Yingying believed that in the future, even if he relied on the people of the Central Plains to reclaim the land step by step, he would squeeze the Turkic forces out of Hexi. And once the mountain barrier in the western part of the Junggar Basin and the Tarim Basin was breached, and the Anxi army, which had consolidated its heartland, could move westward and occupy those borderless lands that were not guarded by strong troops, until it bordered directly with the Persian Empire. At that time, the entire Silk Road was completely under its own control.

Wu Yingying saw that Chase was suddenly receiving the order, and his expression was firmly listening to his instructions, and nodded with satisfaction. To open up the Western Regions, the Gaochang Uighurs were the biggest resistance, and using Chase, who had been trained the longest time by his side, was the main general to run Shanbei, which was also a stable word.

This is a godsend. The Tibetans in the south were divided into hundreds of civil wars in full swing, the Arabs in the west were no longer as brave as they used to be, and civil strife was frequent, and in a few decades, the Crusades would begin. The Russians have not yet crossed the Urals. No powerful empire could stop westward expansion based in the Western Regions. The center of the entire world island has never been closer to China's fingertips. It's a pity, the eyes of the Central Plains Imperial Court are all on the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, so they let this opportunity slip away gently.

"Since I'm here, I'm going to change. Such a sentence suddenly popped up in his heart, Wu Yingying secretly smiled bitterly, and drove this almost godlike epiphany out of his mind, he turned to Luo Youtong and Lin Hong, who were sitting in danger, and said in a deep voice: "Looking around Siyi, only the Tubo tribes that stole Qingtang City still have the power to threaten Hexi, and the Wen Qiqi clan who is entrenched in Miaochuan and the Zhe Ge branch who fled to Qingtang City have no less than 20,000 troops, but the Tubo tribes have frequent disputes with each other, and it is difficult to concentrate all their forces to fight with our army. The Chi Hunting Army and the Jinfan Army should be based in Liangzhou, following the example of the Hussars, subduing and driving away the Tubo tribes north of Qingtang City, seizing Qingtang City, and driving the old Tubo forces to the south of Dafei Sichuan. The meaning of his words is to digest the Tubo tribes that can be digested, and still do not obey the rules of the Anxi army, so they drive farther away, for the south of the Hexi Corridor to expand a large area of strategic buffer land, at the same time, Qingtang City is next to Qinghai Lake, only more than 2,000 meters above sea level, also known as the Hehuang Valley in the history books, the lake is rich in water and grass, agricultural and pastoral land, can raise soldiers.

After Luo Youtong and Lin Hong received the order, Wu Yingying said: "The terrain south of Dafeichuan is towering, the cold miasma is severe, in the first year of Xianheng in the previous dynasty, Tubo entered the Kou, and the famous general Xue Rengui was the general manager of the march of Luosa Road, and the Tubo soldiers fought under the city of Wuhai, and were defeated, losing 100,000 soldiers. In the third year of Yifeng, Cai Jingxuan and Liu Xianli, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, led troops to fight with Tubo in Qinghai, and were defeated. It's not that the soldiers are not brave, but because of the cold miasma. You should restrain the sergeant, and you must not enter the Wuhai area until you have adapted to the cold miasma, remember. Seeing that Wu Yingying spoke sharply, Luo Youtong and Lin Hong were the only ones who took orders. Lin Hong still wondered why Wu Yingying was so clear about the situation in the Tubo territory, but Luo Youtong secretly admired it, when he attacked and killed the Tubo people alone, he also entered the area south of Dafei Sichuan, and he encountered a cold miasma, escaped death, and never dared to cross the south of Dafei Sichuan.

The so-called cold miasma is another name for altitude sickness in this era. The Tang Dynasty army was repeatedly defeated in Dafeichuan, south of Wuhai, to a large extent due to this cold miasma. The Tang army, which is active at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters all the year round, occupies an overwhelming advantage in the Hehuang area at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters above sea level and the Tubo people have an overwhelming advantage, but once they enter the area south of Dafeichuan at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, they have been repeatedly defeated by the Tubo people who are accustomed to living on the plateau, and it has to be said that the plateau is a calm barrier given by God to the Tubo people, and similarly, the plateau makes the Tubo people have low reproductive efficiency, and there are only a few million population until modern times, and the Tang Dynasty has never posed a threat to the Central Plains, but has chosen to submit to the Central Plains court.

In front of the generals, Wu Yingying briefly introduced the cause of the cold miasma, and Luo Youtong and Lin Hong nodded again and again.

"After I left, all the armies should work together to sweep away the remnants of the enemy in the land west of the river, and then vigorously recruit the Han people in Guanzhong to go west to reclaim the land, and distribute the land according to the law of Lanzhou, and grant the title deed after three years of settlement and cultivation. After arranging the long-term operational direction of each army, Wu Yingying slowly turned the topic to governance, "The Chi Hunting Army governs Shanzhou, the Jinfan Army governs Liangzhou, the Hussar Army governs Lingzhou, the Lian Rui Army governs Shazhou and Guazhou, the Baiyu Army governs Xiazhou, and the Lian Rui Army governs Ganzhou and Suzhou." The inhabitants of the cities of the states are listed as merchants who engage in commerce. ”

Wu Yingying paused, and walked to the large map of the military states in the northwest, the terrain of Hexi is like a butterfly chrysalis, and the Anxi army will fly from here to stir up the tide. He pointed to the west of Longshan on the map, as far as the Green Ridge, a large area of Samarkand, and said in a deep voice: "Although the military name is Anxi, but Shuofang, Hexi, Longyou, Anxi, and Beiting, all of which are thousands of miles away, are all battlefields where our army will gallop.

Yu Furenliang and Luo Youtong unconsciously glanced at each other, and they both read the eagerness in each other's eyes. Shanzhou is still in the hands of the Tubo people, and Xiazhou is the heartland of the Dangxiang Tuoba clan, but these two states are the key places with mountains and rivers. By occupying these two states, you will be able to subdue the Tubo tribes and party members just like the Xingu subdued the steppe tribes, and the future achievements will not be limited to the commander of an army.

"The merchants of the city are quite cunning, and the soldiers work hard every day, and it is difficult to fight with these profiteers. Xin Gu sighed with some emotion, now that each army is assigned to a big city, it is indeed difficult for a strong man to manage the city by the sergeants who had a headache for merchants when they were in Lanzhou. Of course, this is when the sergeants do not use their swords to reason.

"This is easy to do," Wu Yingying said with a smile when he saw that the commanders of the various armies were embarrassed, "I have a way to save trouble, organize all the big merchants in the city, let them set up a chamber of commerce, and leave things such as building bridges and roads in the city to the chamber of commerce to maintain." Then all the shops in the city are registered, and a tax amount is approved for each shop according to the size and location, and the amount of income, which is called the shop tax. The merchants in the city pay a consistent amount of money and goods for a year, which is called the poll tax. After these two taxes are set, they will be collected by the Chamber of Commerce every year and handed over to the military government. In exchange, all affairs in the city are handled by the protectors elected by the merchants and the chamber of commerce, which is called merchant self-government. It is equivalent to the merchants paying to buy the autonomy from our Anxi Army, and at the same time accepting the protection of our Anxi Army. ”